Acknowledgments

  We have an INCREDIBLE support system. Here’s our attempt to thank everyone.

  Michael Bourret was FORESHADOW’s very first advocate and our most staunch supporter. It’s impossible to express how much we adore him.

  Thank you, Elise Howard and Sarah Alpert, for loving this project and nudging the craft pieces from our brains. The rest of the AYR team, including Caitlin Rubinstein, Michael McKenzie, Megan Harley, Ashley Mason, Laura Williams, Carla Weise, Martha Cipolla, and Sarah J. Coleman—thank you!

  Jess Capelle—thanks for your generous, speedy legal guidance.

  Thanks to our PHENOMENAL volunteer staff at foreshadowYA.com: Diane Telgen—remarkable managing editor and slush queen. Alexa Wejko, Sharyn November, Denise Conejo, Trisha Tobias—extraordinary fiction editors. Alison Cherry, Angela Cole, and Natalia Wikana—fabulous copy editors. Our reading team passionately sifted for treasure: Emi Benn, Cristina dos Santos, Michelle Falkoff, Ariane Felix, Raechell Garrett, Francesca Flores, Lili Hadsell, Ri Hayashi, Tarie Sabido, Tashi Saheb-Ettaba, Stuti Telidevara, and Nicole Wang. Saraciea Fennell led our publicity efforts for our original campaign. Mara Delgado Sánchez and Deeba Zargarpur were instrumental in launching ISSUE 00. Carey MacArthur supplied the beautiful photographs for the site.

  We wish this book could have included all thirty-nine brilliant stories. Thank you, amazing authors who wrote for us: Dhonielle Clayton, Samantha Mabry, Malinda Lo, Randy Ribay, Stephanie Kuehn, Lilliam Rivera, Courtney Summers, Brandy Colbert, Nina LaCour, Wendy Xu, S.K. Ali, Saundra Mitchell, Mark Oshiro, Uma Krishnaswami, Anna-Marie McLemore, Claribel Ortega, Amy Reed, Sacha Lamb, Sara Farizan, Karuna Riazi, Justine Larbalestier, Rebecca Barrow, Tehlor Kay Mejia, Anna Borges, Tochi Onyebuchi, and Aysha U. Farah.

  Hugs to Nicola Yoon, Adam Silvera, Sabaa Tahir, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Becky Albertalli, Gayle Forman, Laurie Halse Anderson, Heidi Heilig, Jason Reynolds, Jandy Nelson, Melissa Albert, and Roshani Chokshi. They chose their favorites from our slush and gave the perfect introduction for each story.

  Early on we crowdfunded to raise basic operating funds and were blown away by the support from all corners of the community:

  David Levithan sponsored a bajillion of our New Voices. We also received generous sponsorships from Marieke Nijkamp and Barry Lyga & Morgan Baden. And special thanks to Barry Goldblatt Literary, Margot H. Knight & Nick Walsh, and Nicole Valentine.

  Thank you SO MUCH to the prize donors, whose generosity allowed our campaign to be so super-successful: Arvin Ahmadi, Samira Ahmed, Julie C. Dao, Kelly Loy Gilbert, Sara Holland, Tiffany D. Jackson, Stacey Lee, Claire Legrand, Karen McManus, Farrah Penn, Anica Mrose Rissi, Aisha Saeed, Laura Sebastian, Sarah Nicole Smetana, Jessica Spotswood, Ashley Woodfolk, Algonquin Young Readers, Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency, Greenwillow Books, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ICM Partners, Janklow & Nesbit, Katherine Tegen Books, Little, Brown, Page Street Publishing, Penguin, Root Literary, Sara Crowe, Tina Dubois, Jim McCarthy, Beth Phelan, Brooks Sherman, Eric Smith, DongWon Song, Lauren Spieller, Saba Sulaiman, Suzie Townsend, Lauren Abramo, Linda Camacho, Wendi Gu, Taylor Haggerty, Jordan Hamessley, Victoria Marini, Penny Moore, Elana Roth Parker, Joanna Volpe, Marietta Zacker, Seth Fishman, Sarah Alpert, Jenny Bak, Sarah Barley, Kamilla Benko, Jordan Brown, Patrice Caldwell, Joanna Cardenas, Karen Chaplin, Nikki Garcia, Brian Geffen, Marissa Grossman, Katherine Harrison, Andrew Karre, Vicki Lame, Maggie Lehrman, Tiffany Liao, Krestyna Lypen, Kate Meltzer, Martha Mihalick, Matt Ringler, Julie Rosenberg, Stephanie Stein, and Jeffrey West.

  Last, but never least: our wonderful life partners, L and E, who put up with our frantic scrambling, built the foreshadowYA.com website, and shook their heads at the sometimes-foolish ambition with which we charged forward, but followed us anyway. So much love, so many thanks.

  Last-last: Thank YOU, our fabulous readers, for joining us in this love of good stories. This magic only lives on because of you. Thanks for reading.

  —Emily X.R. Pan & Nova Ren Suma

  Also by Emily X.R. Pan

  The Astonishing Color of After

  Also by Nova Ren Suma

  Imaginary Girls

  17 & Gone

  The Walls Around Us

  A Room Away from the Wolves

  Co-created by Emily X.R. Pan & Nova Ren Suma

  FORESHADOW: A Serial YA Anthology (foreshadowya.com)

  Published by Algonquin Young Readers

  an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

  Post Office Box 2225

  Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27515-2225

  a division of Workman Publishing

  225 Varick Street

  New York, New York 10014

  Essays and supplemental materials © 2020 by Emily X.R. Pan & Nova Ren Suma. “Flight” © 2019 by Tanya S. Aydelott. “Risk” © 2019 by Rachel Hylton. “Sweetmeats” © 2019 by Linda Cheng. “Glow” © 2019 by Joanna Truman. “Escape” © 2019 by Tanvi Berwah. “Pan Dulce” © 2019 by Flor Salcedo. “Solace” © 2018 by Nora Elghazzawi. “Princess” © 2019 by Maya Prasad. “Fools” © 2019 by Gina Chen. “Monsters” © 2019 by Adriana Marachlian. “Break” © 2019 by Sophie Meridien. “Resilient” © 2019 by Mayra Cuevas. “Belly” © 2019 by Desiree Evans. All rights reserved.

  Short stories and introductory blurbs were originally published online in slightly altered form by FORESHADOW: A Serial YA Anthology (foreshadowya.com), edited by Emily X.R. Pan & Nova Ren Suma.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Pan, Emily X.R., editor. | Suma, Nova Ren, editor.

  Title: Foreshadow : stories to celebrate the magic of reading and writing YA / created and edited by Emily X.R. Pan & Nova Ren Suma.

  Description: First edition. | Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, 2020. | Audience: Ages 12 and up. | Audience: Grades 7–9. | Summary: Presents an anthology of thirteen short stories by contemporary young adult authors, ranging from fantasy to the experience of Mexican Americans living in border cities. Each story is followed by an author’s note, commentary by one of the editors on such topics as voice, imagery, and mood, and some, with story prompts.

  eISBN 9781643751238

  Subjects: LCSH: Young adult fiction. | CYAC: Short stories.

  Classification: LCC PZ5 .F747 2020 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020025236

 

 

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